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In the fair morning of his life	A
When his pure heart lay in his breast	B
Panting with all that wild unrest	B
To plunge into the great world's strife	A
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That fills young hearts with mad desire	C
He saw a sunset Red and gold	D
The burning billows surged and rolled	D
And upward tossed their caps of fire	C
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He looked And as he looked the sight	E
Sent from his soul through breast and brain	F
Such intense joy it hurt like pain	F
His heart seemed bursting with delight	E
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So near the Unknown seemed so close	G
He might have grasped it with his hands	H
He felt his inmost soul expand	I
As sunlight will expand a rose	J
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One day he heard a singing strain	F
A human voice in bird like trills	J
He paused and little rapture rills	J
Went trickling downward through each vein	F
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And in his heart the whole day long	K
As in a temple veiled and dim	L
He kept and bore about with him	L
The beauty of that singer's song	K
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And then But why relate what then	M
His smouldering heart flamed into fire	C
He had his one supreme desire	C
And plunged into the world of men	M
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For years queen Folly held her sway	N
With pleasures of the grosser kind	O
She fed his flesh and drugged his mind	O
Till shamed he sated turned away	N
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He sought his boyhood's home	P
That hour Triumphant should have been in sooth	Q
Since he went forth an unknown youth	Q
And came back crowned with wealth and power	C
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The clouds made day a gorgeous bed	R
He saw the splendour of the sky	S
With unmoved heart and stolid eye	S
He only knew the West was red	R
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Then suddenly a fresh young voice	J
Rose bird like from some hidden place	J
He did not even turn his face	J
It struck him simply as a noise	J
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He trod the old paths up and down	T
Their rich hued leaves by Fall winds whirled	U
How dull they were how dull the world	U
Dull even in the pulsing town	T
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O worst of punishments that brings	J
A blunting of all finer sense	J
A loss of feelings keen intense	J
And dulls us to the higher things	J
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O penalty most dire most sure	V
Swift following after gross delights	J
That we no more see beauteous sights	J
Or hear as hear the good and pure	V
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O shape more hideous and more dread	R
Than Vengeance takes in creed taught minds	J
This certain doom that blunts and blinds	J
And strikes the holiest feelings dead	R

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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